{beamer} is a document class, used for creating presentations and slides. For general questions about presentations or slides, independent of the document class, use {presentations} tag instead.
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Adjusting space before and after a latex beamer block
I wanted to ask you if there is a better way to adjust the spacing between two beamer blocks:
\documentclass[slidestop]{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\begin{document}
\addtobeamertemplate{block ...
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Beamer notes on secondary screen doesn't work
I am writing a presentation for at introduction to latex and think it would be nice to show how I have my presentation-notes on my laptop screen (Macbook Air) using Beamer.
But it just won't work.
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How do I set the gamma correction of a full LaTeX document?
I will be holding a presentation with a PDF generated by LaTeX beamer.
Projectors in general need a gamma correction of about 2.0, however, my laptop doesn't enable me to set the gamma correction of ...
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How to avoid logo on beamer been covered by graphics
While using Beamer I found that when I add figures, if they are big enough they will cover the logo on the bottom-right. How can I define the logo to be on top of every image? The solution I am using ...
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Incorrect position of hyperref links in block environments in beamer
I use a template for beamer that redefines the block environment to make a real shadow, outline and custom bend corners. The look of it is quite nice but unfortunatly comes with the side effect of an ...
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What is going on with pgfpages and page labels?
I’m using a feature of beamer that shows notes beside slides, but the page numbers that are coming out are crazy, making it impossible to extract specific slides into other documents with ...
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How to visualize dimensions of frame components in beamer?
Is there a package to visualize dimension of all frame components (head/footline, sidebars, navigation bar etc) in beamer? I tried to search for something similar to layout package, but did not ...
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With beamer, prevent animation from restarting on 2-step slide
I have a slide with an animation with autoplay on the top and two graphs at the bottom. The graphs appear in two stages. At the moment, the animation restart when I go to the second step, how I can ...
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How to change color at beamer class using Luebeck theme and split outertheme?
I'm using the beamer class together with Luebeck theme and split outertheme. I already managed to adjust to color of the basic structure, if I use a dark color everything is fine, but now I have to ...
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Beamer - Textblock and Show notes on second screen
my question might seem to have been already asked in Absolute positioning in beamer when using `show notes on second screen`: text on wrong page or in Title picture misplaced in Beamer when using ...
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Beamer (with style) to Html5?
My organization require the use of a standardized powerpoint template for how slides should look, so I've written my own Beamer .sty (style file).
Then I write .Rnw-files in RStudio that I knit ...
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How make a picture slideshow
I would like to use beamer class as backbone for my presentation. However, I encountered a problem. My wish is to put pictures on it and for LaTeX to decide their placement and divide them on frames ...
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Specify positions for top/bottom in Beamer vertical shading
MWE
\documentclass{beamer}
% Yes, this is a poster, if that matters in the slightest
%\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter}
\mode<presentation>{}
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Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty?
I'm trying to read the source of Beamer default outer theme (the file beamerouterthemedefault.sty). In line 144 there is this code:
\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{default}[1][left]
{
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Where to find the documentation to beamer elements?
I am on the way to create/customize a beamer template. Therefore I read the relevant chapters in the beameruserguide.
I think I understood the basic idea behind the theme setup and the use of the ...
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Auto-flowing Blocks in Beamer/BeamerPoster environment?
What I have:
Multi-column beamerposter with blocks in each column
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}
\begin{block}{A Block}
...
\end{block}
\begin{block}{A Block}
...
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Text in table with images is not aligned on top
I have table with text in the first column and image in second. I want both columns to be top aligned. I use following code:
\begin{tabular}{p{3cm}l}
Internal state after adding 2 elements & ...
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Animate swaps of elements in beamer
I need a nice way to show sequential swaps of two elements in verbatim. By swaps I mean two elements changing their positions with each other. Is there any specific command in beamer to animate this? ...
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add code on every latex beamer frame
I would like to add some lines of code at the beginning of each frame, like the code which is uncommented here. However, the addtobeamertemplate does not work in the way I expected it. Does anybody ...
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Beamer: how to show a logo in the vertical bar only if there is enough space left?
I would like to insert an additional (other than the top-left one) logo in a beamer presentation using Palo Alto theme, so that it appears in the navigation bar ONLY if there is enough space left.
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beamer: headers are cut with CambridgeUS and beamerthemeshadow
I am creating a presentation with beamer and the theme CambridgeUS. My problem is that the section and subsection titles displayed in the header are slightly cut as soon as ...
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Same animation for all beamer slides
I need to put same animation for all slides. I mean all paragraphs, bullets, images. After opening slide automatically work all animations of opened slide (all items of this slide). This is same for ...
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Citation colour with Beamer + Hyperref + Natbib
I'm using natbib for citation with a custom bibstyle. I'm working on a presentation using LaTeX beamer and for some reason the citation marker doesn't have the colour that is specified to hyperref. ...
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href does not run properly
I have been working with Mac and TeX Live, the newest version. I want to run videos by a mouse click on the PDF generated by a beamer presentation. I tried with shells and I also used appify to ...
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how to have the journal name shown when I cite a paper in beamer?
I am writing a beamer presentation and I would like citations to appear (in the text!) like "Doe et al., Journal of Latex Greatness, 2007". Instead if I use only the \cite{} command (together with ...
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Beamer - Optimal figure size given there is a caption, frametitle, etc
This question is inspired by an almost complete solution. My aim is to have the figure (placed in a figure environment) occupy the maximum place possible given that it has a caption (without ...
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Keystrokes have miraculously switched to French using Beamer
Hi I'm using Beamer to prepare a presentation and for some weird reason the keystroke has decided to switch to French (it worked fine in the coursebook that I have already prepared).
As far as I can ...
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My tikzpicture is to large for my beamer frame
I'm extremely new to LaTeX and this is my first post on this site. I have a major presentation coming in a couple weeks, and I'm in great need of your help.
I export Geogebra code for my graphs, it's ...
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Numbering all lines in a presentation
I would like everyline of a presentation to be numbered. Like the lineno package will do.
I tried the following but it does not print line numbers. I don't see why, I know there are some \par ...
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Converting Powerpoint master slide to beamer
Is it possible to take a Powerpoint master slide and convert it to something that can be used with beamer? My organization requires the use of Powerpoint, but I can get away with presenting pdf's ...
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Beamer bibliography in two columns on multiple frames?
Is it possible to put a bibliography in beamer presentation, in two columns spanning via several frames?
I have
\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]{Reference}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
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Windows Beamer presentation with notes
Have anybody have success by finding a PDF Reader for Windows, that have possiblity to show notes on one screen and the presentation on the projector?
I am looking for one, otherwise I need to ...
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Sawasdee Font in Beamer Poster
I'm trying to use the "Sawasdee" font in a beamer poster (installed as a TrueType font from fonts-tlwg-sawasdee ubuntu package). I can activate it in a regular (scractl) document by using ...
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\setbeamerfont for customizing content font in LaTeX beamer
I have a problem in which I am not sure how to modify the content (normal text) of beamer font. I only know how to modify the frametitle
In which
\setbeamerfont{structure}{family=\fontUbuntu}
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What are \notes{} for in beamer?
I cannot put a lot of text in \notes{} so I wonder what it is used for.
I mean I would like to add comprehensive explanations to frames. But if I write too much text, a segmentation fault occurs.
I ...
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Problem with drawing borders around slides in latex beamer handouts with Adobe Reader
I am using the LaTeX beamer package and handoutWithNotes package to create a presentation with notes and rectangle around each slide.
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
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Pages in beamer are incorectly numbered when using “show notes on second screen”
I'm using beamer to create a presentation, and want to use the mode "show notes on second screen". Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug: when I turn it on, the page numbers are shifted one page up, ...
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Problem in installing package
Each time I tried to install package and choose the source: internet, I receive the following message: Cannot download the list of available package repositories: Not found.
Please, can I get any ...
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Beamer, TOC other language
In this code, I would like to have that the words out of Table of Contents (like section) will be translate into dutch. I thought that it would work with babel but it doesn't work and Latex doesn't ...
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Enumerate with combination of numbers and letters without using item labels
I want to achieve something like this:
1 blah
2 blub
3a something
3b an alternative of something
4 blob
Sure I could use \item[3a] and \item[3b] to get the numbers right BUT the enumeration is part ...
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Doodle on top of Sweave output
It might not be possible to do this, but I was wondering if there is a way to doodle on top of the LaTeX output, or in my case on top of Sweave output.
See example underneath!!
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Beamerposter: Span two columns with Figure
I've been trying to get this done for the past several hours. This is my current situation:
As you can see, the figure at the mid-right of the poster is cutting off. So, how can I fix this?
I ...
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Beamer: Visualize overlay borders in handout mode
I want to display the slide areas of a frame in handout mode.
A possible solution could look like this:
\begin{frame} % presentation mode
On slide 1 \\
\pause
On slide 2
\end{frame}
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In Beamer, how to prevent \includemovie from restarting swf animations?
On this frame, there are 3 swf animations starting once the slide opens. I would like to prevent them from automatically looping. I tried a few options without any success, such as endat=frame:10 or ...
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highlight listings in beamer
While trying to use listings and beamer, for highlight some parts of the code I found the following: How to make overlay still work inside lstlisting environment?
However I notice that I can't ...
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Testing system in beamer
Can I use \radioButton option in Beamer? I need to make test(choice) system with counting right answers in presentation mode, maybe there's any class for making testing. I have error with ...
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Beamer for letter size paper
My daughter is in high school and is working on a science project. She has really enjoyed writing the paper in LaTeX. Now, she has to make a tri-fold presentation of the major points. In the past, ...
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How can I add a number to an equation sometimes on the left and another time on the right and refer to it afterwards?
How can I add a number to an equation sometimes on the left and another time on the right and use a tag command to refer to it afterwards? I will use in the document a number on the right side.
For ...
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Thickness of frames in xymatrix (for a beamer presentation)
I have an xymatrix that looks like this:
xymatrix{
A & B & C & D \\
& A & B & C }
I would like to put a red frame around the second column. I've been able to accomplish ...
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Expressing beamer styles in ordinary LaTeX
I use beamer for all my slides, and Ipe for most of my drawings. This has become a little inconvenient since my slides involve lots of pictures, and so my typical beamer frame really only looks like
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